SOLUTION: a web designer is trying to put 4 characters on a page. the space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1. character 3 takes 7 units less than character 2. char

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Question 120278: a web designer is trying to put 4 characters on a page. the space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1. character 3 takes 7 units less than character 2. character 4 takes the same amount of space as character 2. i have to find the total space occupied by all the characters in an algebraic expression
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a web designer is trying to put 4 characters on a page. the space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1. character 3 takes 7 units less than character 2. character 4 takes the same amount of space as character 2. i have to find the total space occupied by all the characters in an algebraic expression
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Let space for character 1 be "x".
2 space = x+5
3 space = x+5-7=x-2
4 space = x+5
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Total space = x + x+5 + x-2 + x+5 = 4x+8
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Stan H.